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07-08-2006, 11:44 AM
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We go to the 1.50 movie place, which playes the same movies as the 10 dollar movie place in the same mall. Only a few months later. Haven't seen a full price movie since Jurrassic Park 3. Oh, the old theater may not have staggered platform seating and be all new and stuff. But the difference in price lets me go out to the food court and buy lunch for the whole family and still have money to shop a bit. I would love to pay full price for a movie, but they gotta give me one worth seeing.
Of course by the time I rent it on DVD it is too late to pay full price, even if it is the greatest movie on Earth. I can live with that.
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07-08-2006, 01:27 PM
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If you really do enjoy cinema, going to see a movie in a crowded theater full of noisy teenagers and kiddies sort of spoils the mood.
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07-09-2006, 01:15 PM
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I got duped into seeing it Saturday afternoon by my daughters. I told them to find a time and place to see "Tokyo Drift" but when we got to the theatre it was "Pi Rats".
OMG, it was gross and boring and tedious and completely unengaging. The only good thing about it was the air conditioning. Maybe the clothes too - the dapper costumes of the bureaucrats - love that 18th century Beau Brummel look. The soccer moms in the audience in their summer skimpies weren't too bad either.
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07-09-2006, 01:26 PM
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I found a lot of similiarities with Empire Strikes Back -
Father giving son 5 lashes while fish face looks on while having an orgasim (darth beating down luke while the emperor looked on) ending scene (han going into the deep freeze) going to the witch doctor (luke going to see yoda) the list goes on and on, nothing that hasn't been done before.
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07-10-2006, 12:50 PM
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I actually enjoyed this one better than the first Pirates.The first one kept going back to the same locations.I loved that beastie!I think thats the first time Ive ever seen such a real looking sea serpent in a movie.And the sword fight!Wow!
But I keep imagining what this would have been like with a young Jackie Chan.Or a young Burt Lancaster(Crimson Pirate,anyone?) Jimmy
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07-10-2006, 02:03 PM
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"The Empire Strikes Back" was a much better movie! I know, I worked on it at Industrial Light and Magic. The explosions were my contribution.
Funny but both my daughters (14 and 10) like Pirates 2. I will give them credit for targeting their audience. I also noted a number of production shortcuts. On a number of outdoor shots, they didn't shade and fill the lighting very well at all so they were overly contrasty. You can also see next season's amusement park rides in some of the scenes.
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07-10-2006, 02:46 PM
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I haven't seen the movie yet, but I'm glad to see this review. Now I can just sit back and take the movie for what it's worth - sounds like mostly a special effects orgy. I can deal with that.
This all makes sense for the middle film of a trilogy. Those are rarely very much more than filler between the first and last work: a necessary connection, but usually a boring one. I just took a look at rottentomatoes.com. "Rotten" rating from reviewers, but viewers seemed to like it. Probably a lot of them were in the teen crowd.
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07-10-2006, 02:47 PM
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I saw this over the weekend, not bad, and at least they didn't totally blow it like many sequels are prone to. I will agree that this movie is not "deep" and if you go to this type of film expecting more than superficial entertainment you will be disappointed. At 2:30 long if you don't enjoy action films without a very focused plot it will seem like an enternity. I saw it knowing that it was mostly going to be a story about nothing in particular and thought it was entertaining, nothing more or nothing less. Most of the entertainment value of this film are the characters themselves and the special effects.
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07-14-2006, 05:45 PM
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Funny thing is, it's killing everything else at the movie theaters.
It beat "Spiderman" as best first gross week, ever. Wowza. I still hated it.
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07-14-2006, 06:18 PM
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Sounds like "Seinfeld"  Which, BTW, is just fine by me. This ain't Bergman, Fellini, or Kubrick, guys......................
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07-15-2006, 02:02 PM
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'Twas quite dissapointing if you went expecting anything other than mindless summer entertainment. Wait I take that back, it was dissapointing regardless. The entire movie was an excuse to make a third movie. 2.5 hours of filler with no real coherent plot, or explanation given as to why everybody was frantically searching for what they were searching for.
The only redeeming part: the return of my second favorite character from the first movie... you know who I'm talking about...
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07-17-2006, 02:59 PM
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It's a summer movie.
 I liked it without qualification or caveat.
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